People v. Green
Court Of Oyer And Terminer New York
The prisoner, Henry G. Green, was indicted for the murder of Mary A. Green, his wife, by poisoning her with arsenic, and’ pleaded to the indictment not guilty. The cause came on to be tried at the Rensselaer oyer and terminer, on the 7th July, 1845, before Parker, circuit judge, and Davis, Bull and Waite, county judges. The trial occupied two weeks, the evidence relied upon by the prosecution being mostly circumstantial. About fifty witnesses were examined.
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The prisoner, Henry G. Green, was indicted for the murder of Mary A. Green, his wife, by poisoning her with arsenic, and’ pleaded to the indictment not guilty. The cause came on to be tried at the Rensselaer oyer and terminer, on the 7th July, 1845, before Parker, circuit judge, and Davis, Bull and Waite, county judges. The trial occupied two weeks, the evidence relied upon by the prosecution being mostly circumstantial. About fifty witnesses were examined. It was proved on the trial, that the prisoner was married to the deceased on Sunday the 10th February, 1845: that both the prisoner and…
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, J.,
in charging the jury, after speaking with comb.. mdation of the patient attention with which the jury had lr tened to the trial, proceeded, in substance, as follows:
To all concerned, the case is one of importance. To the piisoner at the bar it is most certainly one of vast importance —for his life hangs on the issue. To the public it is of infinitely great importance — because the good order of community depends on the prompt and faithful administration of justice, and the punishment of crime, where crime is proved to have been committed. It is of no less importance to you, who are…
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